Charge

General Objective:

The AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show is a well-established competition, with a rich history. For the past two decades, the stated mission of the Show has been twofold: to honor and to instruct. While this mission endures, the nature of university press publishing has transformed, offering new ways to package our scholarship and content. Given these changes, the BJ&J Show Task Force is charged with re-evaluating the mission and purpose of both the competition and the catalog.

Specific tasks, short term (November 2016):

Dive deep into the submission categories to ensure that they reflect the true nature of AAUP publishing by reevaluating the categories and category descriptions